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#10667
NVIDIA suggestions for PES 5
DAY : 2005-10-29 08:21:23
Game Title: Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Game Console: PC
Game Genere: Sports
Game Title: Konami
I've optimized Nvidia settings to work with PES 5, please continue reading. I have a GeForce FX 52000 and I'm glad to tell you that if you tweak the Nvidia settings you can GREATLY improve the performance of these cards for PES 4/5. My card is has 128 MB of RAM and I use WinXP. So if you have an Nvidia card, there's lots of things that you can do in order to improve your performance rather than buying a brand new card. Here are my suggestions
Right click on Desktop, Properties, Configuration
Change the Color quality to 16 bits.
Lower your resolution to the resolution of the game, in my case 1024x768
Click on Advanced Settings
There should be a tab with the name of your video card, in my case GeForce FX 5200
Click on Add Profile, click on Browse and select the executable of PES 4/5, in my case pesaccess05.exe (yep I still play it at least 2-3 times a week ;). Select a name for your profile and click on OK
Ok now select your profile from the Active Profile, and before changing anything, remember to click on the checkbox before the setting that you're gonna change, you'll see Settings for ProfileName (in my case, settings for Pes Access 2005
Ok, now follow this list and you'll have a descent graphic level, with an extremelly fast gameplay speed. Now more slow games, this settings are really gonna improve your game
Make sure that Show advanced settings is turned on
Antialiasing settings - Off
Antisotropic filtering - Application controlled
Image settings - performance *
Vertical sync - Off
Force mipmaps - Bilinear
Conformant texture clamp - On
Extension limit - off
Trilinear optimization - Off
Antisotropic mip filter optimization - Off
Antisotropic sample optimization - On
Negative LOD bias - Allow
*If your game isn't as fast as you want, try changing this to High Performance. You can also change this to Quality if you want to test how high this setting can go without affecting your game speed
Please Post your comments in this news article if you have anythign extra to add to this. I've found that with these settings there is no need to overclock your video card (believe me, these cards can burn if you overclock them too much. Anyway, if you want/can overclock your card, a good idea will be to buy a PCI fan, one that will take out the extra heat out of your computer, and place it beneath your card.
Another good idea will be to run Windows 98 instead of WinXP (believe me, with Win98, an antivirus and a firewall I believe you can count with 95% of your resources in order to play the game much faster)
For me, the tips indicated above work, I can now play PES much faster than what I used to, even 30 minutes matches, this game is really better if you can play it at a descent speed. It's not about the graphics, it's about the fun factor, remember that. I am willing to 'sacrifice' some graphics settings in order to play the game at a fast speed. The Antisotropic filtering was the only setting that really made my game show horrible graphics, when I left it at Application controlled and tweaked the other settings, it worked alright.